The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Interspersed with Translations and Critical Remarks, Volume 4T. Bensley, 1806 |
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... weft and northern climes . But they of our own writers , who thought they had done nothing , unlefs with all circumftance they tell us when , and who first set foot upon this island , prefume to name out of fabulous and counterfeit ...
... weft and northern climes . But they of our own writers , who thought they had done nothing , unlefs with all circumftance they tell us when , and who first set foot upon this island , prefume to name out of fabulous and counterfeit ...
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... weft , in th ' ocean wide , Beyond the realm of Gaul , a land there lies , Scagirt it lies , where giants dwelt of old , Now void it fits thy people ; thither bend Thy courfe , there fhalt thou find a lafting feat , There to thy fons ...
... weft , in th ' ocean wide , Beyond the realm of Gaul , a land there lies , Scagirt it lies , where giants dwelt of old , Now void it fits thy people ; thither bend Thy courfe , there fhalt thou find a lafting feat , There to thy fons ...
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... Weft - Saxon . In the minority of her fon fhe had the rule ; and then , as may be fuppofed , brought forth thefe laws , not , herself , for laws are masculine births , but by the advice of her fageft counfellors ; and therein the might ...
... Weft - Saxon . In the minority of her fon fhe had the rule ; and then , as may be fuppofed , brought forth thefe laws , not , herself , for laws are masculine births , but by the advice of her fageft counfellors ; and therein the might ...
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... weft country ; who finding there no fafety either to land or to caft anchor , chofe rather to commit themselves again to the troubled fea ; and , as Orofius reports , were most of them caft away . The fame night , it being full moon ...
... weft country ; who finding there no fafety either to land or to caft anchor , chofe rather to commit themselves again to the troubled fea ; and , as Orofius reports , were most of them caft away . The fame night , it being full moon ...
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... weft , at midnight was becalmed . And finding when it was light , that the whole navy lying on the current , had fallen off from the isle , which now they could defcry on their left hand ; by the unwearied labour of his foldiers , who ...
... weft , at midnight was becalmed . And finding when it was light , that the whole navy lying on the current , had fallen off from the isle , which now they could defcry on their left hand ; by the unwearied labour of his foldiers , who ...
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